alt text: screenshot of bluesky post by the CNN. post content reads "BREAKING: Satirical news site The Onion has won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars" with embedded CNN article link reading "The Onion wins bidding for InfoWars assets | CNN Business - Satirical news site The Onion won the auction to acquire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars".

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[–] kaityy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

wait you're telling me this actually happened, and wasn't just some weird Onion article I got on my feed the other day??? LMFAOOOO

[–] wise@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago

Same here Had to check the Twitter post existed cause I still didn’t believe it

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can’t wait to see what they do with it

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Start publishing leftist(real) conspiracies? Push anticapitalist propaganda? Have it all be formatted similarly to the original site?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago

That’s what I hope they do.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Finally smile inducing news

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I hope they just start posting real stories about America’s far right.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 23 points 2 days ago

The perfect name to spread some chaos lmao

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Tee-hee.